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A Good Read: Kaffe Fassett and Andy Summers

Kaffe Fassett and Andy Summers

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The artist and musician recommend their choice of book

Two memoirs and a Japanese novel are up for discussion

Kaffe Fassett is perhaps best known for his colourful knitwear designs but he is also a quilt maker, painter and ceramicist.  His choice of book is Kandahar Cockney: A Tale of Two Worlds by former foreign correspondent James Fergusson.  It's the story of Mir an interpreter Fergusson meets and hires while on assignment in Afghanistan in the late 1990s as the country fell to the Taliban for the first time.  Fergusson assists Mir in escaping to Britain and claiming asylum where he becomes the eponymous 'Kandahar Cockney' trying to navigate a new life in the East End of London.  Kaffe chose it because of recent events and wanted to reread it.
Andy Summers is a guitarist best known for being part of The Police.  He is also the author of a collection of short stories Fretted & Moaning featuring a variety of characters whose lives centre in some way around the guitar.  His good read is A Tale For The Time Being by Ruth Ozeki which he says is 'hip, modern and amazing'.
Alongside these two books is Toast by Nigel Slater, the food writer's memoir of growing up hungry in the 1960s and 70s.

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